Toy.



No. 830,774. PATENTED SEPT. 11, 1906.

c. EWING. TOY.

APPLICATION FILED 00T.28, 190B.

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UNrrEn sTArEs PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES EWING, OF TARRYTOWVN, NEWV YORK.

TOY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 11, 1906.

Application filed October 28, 1903. Serial No. 178,845.

New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toys, of which the following is a specification.

The invention consists in the combination of a piece shaped like a tack and a box or other suitable receptacle having a hole in its bottom, the hole being a little larger in diameter than the shank of the tack and the thickness of the bottom bearing such relation to the dimensions of the tack that when the tack is resting with its point and the rim of its head touching the bottom the point will not pass through the hole, but if brought to the edge of the hole will strike against the walls thereof. The object is to get the shank of the tack into the hole, and the head covering the hole by skilful manipulation of the box and without touching the tack.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, Figure 1 shows in cross-section a suitable box showing also the tack. Fig. 2 shows a top view of the box also with the tack. Figs. 3 and 4 are side and bottom views of the tack.

The box A is for convenience made round and is provided with a hole B and a tack C. The box is preferably covered with lass G 0.1 other transparent covering. It wi 1 be seen that this form of toy consists, essentially, of a piece, which may be called the trick-piece, which is to be manipulated and brought into certain relation with the hole in the box or receptacle, which may be called the fieldpiece, by which is meant the part of the toy upon which the trick-piece is allowed to range or play. i/Vith reference to the trick-piece, while I have described it for simplicity as consisting of a tack, I want it to be understood that what is really desired is a shaft with a round head at some point upon the length thereof. This shaft may be pointed or blunt or encircled with a small groove 9 near the oint or variously modified in shape to affect the difficulty of manipulation. For example, it might be made in a spiral, and if made straight the disk might be set at some posi tion between the ends, so that the difficulty of success with the toy might be different with respect to the two ends, for it will be observed that the difficulty of accomplishing the feat depends not alone on the size of the hole, but on the thickness of the bottom relatively to the angle made with the bottom by the shaft or shank when the trick-piece is lying on the bottom.

How the arts should be proportioned will depend on 0w easy it is desirable that the feat shall be performable. It may be stated that the difficulty is increased by diminishing the size of the hole or increasing the thickness of the bottom or diminishing the diameter of the head of the trick-piece.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

The combination of a receptacle with a hole and a trick-piece consisting of a shank provided with a rounded enlargement and a groove in the shank near the end, the shank being near its point of such size relatively to the diameter and length of the hole that the shank will not pass through the hole when the rounded enlargement is resting on the bottom, substantially as described.

Signed by me at Tarrytown, New York, this 22d day of October, 1903.

CHARLES EWVIN G.

Witnesses:

J. BENEDICT SEE, GEORGE S. CHAPPELL. 

